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Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by sk1ppy »

ticks wrote: post #72
digitalengineer wrote: post #70

Oh, with Adobe there are different kinds of hell: "Adobe’s rep told me that she’s very sorry, but I simply cannot buy CS 5.5 via the website. I must have an American billing address, or else they can’t sell me the product. Can’t buy it on the site, big deal. But wait, the plot thickens." http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/adobe-actively-encouraging-inte... Or: Why are UK prices nearly double US prices? It's cheaper to fly…

This happens in all sort of markets. You charge based on the cost of living. I don't like it, but it happens. It is usually linked to a contractual obligation in the locality, which means they have to charge higher to support the costs of their local representatives.

So photoshop is 2x the price in the UK (where I live) due to cost of living, but my colleagues in the states earn 1.5x my salary also due to cost of living? Does not compute.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

#82

Post by kamjam »

Aramgutang wrote: post #41
elithrar wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. I agree. As a photographer, I use Lightroom and Photoshop for most of my post-processing needs. Lightroom, when it hit, barely felt like an Adobe application (it's great), but Photoshop has always been a nightmare of crashes. CS5 on OS X is especially bad. As an experiment, I tried to use (only) Lightroom and Pixelmator[1], which is the closes…

I couldn't agree more with the sentiment that Lightroom doesn't feel like an Adobe product because it just works so well (barring speed issues that crop up on some machines). The purchase process for Lightroom 3 a year or two ago, however, was a stark reminder of who I was dealing with. I purchased an education license online, going through the convoluted student status verification process (which was incredibly unin…

When it's such a hassle to buy a legitimate copy, they wonder why the hell people pirate. Don't blame you!

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

#83

Post by [deleted] »

sk1ppy wrote: post #81
ticks wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens in all sort of markets. You charge based on the cost of living. I don't like it, but it happens. It is usually linked to a contractual obligation in the locality, which means they have to charge higher to support the costs of their local representatives.

So photoshop is 2x the price in the UK (where I live) due to cost of living, but my colleagues in the states earn 1.5x my salary also due to cost of living? Does not compute.

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Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

#84

Post by esbwhat »

AJ007 wrote: post #27
coenhyde wrote: post #7

I've been trying to buy Creative Cloud for the last month. And frankly I've given up. I've gone back to Pixelmator. I own CS3 and was entitled to the one year discount. However my account at adobe where my copy of CS3 is registered was created many years go and appears to be incompatible with their current systems. My account information says I'm from the USA, which is incorrect, I'm from Australia. So when I try to…

This reminds me of Microsoft's "cloud" offerings. The last version of Office I bought, I bought online, its undownloadable. There is no CD key in the account. A few years ago I used Office Live. Its shut down and (may be) named 365 or you are supposed to use Office 365. I don't know. I once used "Microsoft Online" which was just a hosted Exchange server. The goal was to use the web based email, along with Outlook on…

This is why I only buy software on CD, even if the option costs extra.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by blackhole »

elithrar wrote: post #9
joelrunyon wrote: post #5

This seems like another arena that's incredibly practical, ripe for disruption and one of those "hard ideas" that PG talks about that people naturally shy away from, but has real market potential. Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. "Adobe is Lazy" - Steve Jobs ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-... )

> Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. I agree. As a photographer, I use Lightroom and Photoshop for most of my post-processing needs. Lightroom, when it hit, barely felt like an Adobe application (it's great), but Photoshop has always been a nightmare of crashes. CS5 on OS X is especially bad. As an experiment, I tried to use (only) Lightroom and Pixelmator[1], which is the closes…

Sometimes I wish I could disrupt Adobe, but I can't figure out how. They have /so much/ inertia it is absurd.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

#86

Post by gurkendoktor »

ticks wrote: post #72
digitalengineer wrote: post #70

Oh, with Adobe there are different kinds of hell: "Adobe’s rep told me that she’s very sorry, but I simply cannot buy CS 5.5 via the website. I must have an American billing address, or else they can’t sell me the product. Can’t buy it on the site, big deal. But wait, the plot thickens." http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/adobe-actively-encouraging-inte... Or: Why are UK prices nearly double US prices? It's cheaper to fly…

This happens in all sort of markets. You charge based on the cost of living. I don't like it, but it happens. It is usually linked to a contractual obligation in the locality, which means they have to charge higher to support the costs of their local representatives.

What is new (at least to me) is that Adobe keeps the price difference for their subscription plan. You can install whatever language you want - but you have to pay the local price.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by cledet »

esbwhat wrote: post #84
AJ007 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me of Microsoft's "cloud" offerings. The last version of Office I bought, I bought online, its undownloadable. There is no CD key in the account. A few years ago I used Office Live. Its shut down and (may be) named 365 or you are supposed to use Office 365. I don't know. I once used "Microsoft Online" which was just a hosted Exchange server. The goal was to use the web based email, along with Outlook on…

This is why I only buy software on CD, even if the option costs extra.

We're in a digital age. You shouldn't have to do this.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by ralfd »

DavidAbrams wrote: post #52
esusatyo wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps this kind of stories is what makes the App Store very successful.

But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it has resulted in untold numbers of people with numerous Apple IDs and content bought with all of them.

I actually think this is a good idea. An email address is unique and easy to remember for the user.

The stupid stuff is the following:

This was not always required. I think there was a transition period were it was not enforced but only advised on the register page. And also somewhat ambigous like "Enter here your Apple ID username eg. BruceWayne@mac.com" I know two people who entered their (company) name in such a way, but without really having a dotmac address! And then dotmac was changed to Mobile Me and even though me.com was retained for iCloud I couldn't use an "old" Mobile Me email-adress, which was sad because it was a nice address with the initials of my name, but had to make a new me.com iCloud account/address. Really Confusing.

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Post by politician »

joelrunyon wrote: post #5

This seems like another arena that's incredibly practical, ripe for disruption and one of those "hard ideas" that PG talks about that people naturally shy away from, but has real market potential. Forget the next SoLoMo craze - who wants to disrupt Adobe? They need it. "Adobe is Lazy" - Steve Jobs ( http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-... )

CodeMirror for graphics?

Re: Buying Adobe Photoshop CS6

#90

Post by esbwhat »

cledet wrote: post #87
esbwhat wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is why I only buy software on CD, even if the option costs extra.

We're in a digital age. You shouldn't have to do this.

I agree completely. The last two pieces of software I bought were both for a computer that doesn't even have a CD drive. But it still makes me feel better to have the files, in a way that more or less guarantees there's no prerequisite of having a functioning internet connection (implying their server will also need to work in order for the software to)
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